The Bench: Round 8 2026 - Carlton

So if you're new here to the bench, we're going to recap the five key points or key takeaways from the Hawthorne game.

But before we do, it's important to go through some of the key statistics from the evening.

So it was the Carlton Blues, five goals, 6-36, defeating the Hawthorne Hawks, three goals, 6-24.

Our goal scorers on the evening, Poppy Stockwell with a double, and then we had a single goal to Caitlin Ashmore, who was playing her 50th game, Liam, for the club? yes 50th club game 99th overall 50th club game for the Hawks.

So well done, Cashy, on bringing up 50 games in the brown and gold.

And as you said, 99 games in total, which means that this weekend, Cashy is going to bring up the triple ton.

So well done.

Bring up the triple figure, sorry.

Bring up the ton and wonderful.

Because that'll be two players from the Hawthorne list so far this season.

Liam, who'd been able to reach the three-digit mark, to reach that century mark, which is absolutely amazing.

with the other one being Emily Bates, our skipper who's unfortunately out recovering from an ACL injury.

Yeah, considering how short W seasons are and have been, you know, we've had one that was artificially shortened in 2020.

We had seasons as short as seven games initially.

It is a massive accomplishment to reach 100 games.

So it's, you know, a testament to their professionalism, their durability, and their ability to, you know, continue turning up good enough performances to remain on list as the young talent coming through gets better and better every year.

So, yeah, really looking forward to celebrating Caitlin Ashmore's 100th game tomorrow as we record.

Well done, Kashi, for the 100 that's coming up this weekend.

In terms of our disposal getters on the evening, we had Eliza West and Lucy Wales who had 20 apiece.

We had 19 to Laura Stone.

We had 17 to Laura Elliott and 16 to Anya McDonough.